The Foolish Tortoise [Board book]

Last published in 1998, this classic story whimsically illustrated by Eric Carle returns with a fresh new cover design. Children and adults alike will enjoy this jubilant tale of a tortoise on a journey of self-discovery!Richard Buckley is a much-traveled English writer of both prose and poetry. He has lived in New York, Paris, and London, but his present home is in Cheltenham, England, where he has lived for the past thirty years, bringing up two sons with his wife (and muse) Elfie. His books for children includeThe Dutiful Penguin,The Foolish Tortoise(with Eric Carle),The Greedy Python(with Eric Carle), andThe Bird Who Couldn’t Fly(with Alex Williams).

Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of more than seventy books for very young children, includingThe Tiny Seed,Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me, and his most well-known title,The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Born in Syracuse, New York, Eric Carle moved to Germany with his parents when he was six years old. He studied at the prestigious art school, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, in Stuttgart, before returning to the United States, where he worked as a graphic designer forTheNew York Timesand later as art director for an advertising agency.The Very Hungry Caterpillar, now considered a modern classic, has sold nearly fifty million copies and has been translated into sixty-five languages. With his late wife, Barbara, Eric Carle cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts in 2002. Eric Carle lives in the Florida Keys.Enter the World of Eric Carle, where fans young and old continue to draw upon his lessons in creativity, discovery, play, and learning. Each book tells a timeless story and is filled with striking artwork made of thick, brilliant brushstrokes that dazzle the eye!